Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.